5Q: Buyer & Cellar
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process.
Taking inspiration from Streisand’s coffee table book
My Passion for Design, playwright Jonathan Tolins playfully scrutinizes the zany implications of Streisand’s underground shopping center in this uproarious one-man show,
Buyer & Cellar. The show opens with a disclaimer: the only thing that is true about the show is that Streisand does indeed have a shopping mall in the basement of her Malibu home, complete with an immaculate curation of shops including an antique clothing store, a doll storeroom, and a sweets shop. Other than that, the show is a complete work of fiction.